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noun an act of mending or making good something which is broken

Origin & History of “repair”

Repair ‘mend’ (14th c.) and repair ‘go’ (14th c.) are two distinct words. The former comes via Old French reparerfrom Latin reparāre ‘put back in order’, a compoundverb formed from the prefix re- ‘back’ and parāre ‘put in order’ (source of Englishprepare). Repair ‘go’ is ultimately the sameword as repatriate (17th c.). both go back to late Latin repatriāre ‘go home’, a compound verb based on Latin patria ‘homeland’ (a relative of English father, patron, etc). Repatriate was acquired direct from Latin, whereas repair was routed via Old French repairer.